Dashboard Favorites Manager

Manage your Concrete CMS dashboard favorites with more control and faster access. Adds a dashboard page to add, remove, live search, reorder, import, and export favorites, plus an optional toolbar star button for quick access.

Compatible with Concrete CMS 9.2.0 and later

Current version: 1.2.4 (7th September 2026)

Author: Digitmaster

Dashboard Favorites Manager helps Concrete CMS users to manage the existing dashboard favorites menu, which is not directly editable in the default interface.

Features

!! New in 1.2.4:

Added a dedicated "Open in new tab" action for every toolbar favorite
Added an option to keep the favorites menu open after page changes
Added an option to enable or disable toolbar favorites tooltips
Improved light and dark theme support throughout the favorites manager and toolbar favorites menu
Restyled and unified colors, search results, highlights, actions, and interaction states with the Concrete CMS interface

Favorites management

Dedicated dashboard page to manage Concrete CMS dashboard favorites
Per-user favorites and settings
Add or remove dashboard pages from favorites
Reorder favorites using drag and drop on desktop or up/down controls on smaller screens
Bulk-remove favorites
AJAX updates for favorite toggles, reordering, bulk removal, and toolbar/menu synchronization

Dashboard page search

Live dashboard page search in both the manager and toolbar favorites menu
Direct add/remove favorite actions from search results
Dedicated links to open dashboard pages from search results
Controls for ordering dashboard page search results
Per-user setting to show or hide search in the toolbar favorites menu

Toolbar and favorites menu

Optional toolbar star button for quick access to favorites
Compact mobile favorites toolbar button
Collapsible options panel for toolbar and menu settings
Optional Concrete CMS version label in the toolbar, displayed inside the favorites menu on mobile devices
Action links with play icons
Dashboard-only favorite links, with unsafe or non-navigable targets filtered out
Optional “Log out” action inside the toolbar favorites menu

Cache clearing and feedback

Optional “Clear cache now!” action inside the toolbar favorites menu
Background cache clearing with no redirect to the Clear Cache page, including feedback response

Import and export

Export and import favorites to and from JSON
Import results showing imported and skipped items

Reliability

Automatic normalization and repair of malformed dashboard favorite data where possible

Please write me a message to report any issues. I am happy to provide support.

Repo

https://github.com/concrete5-community/dashboard_favorites_manager